A Strategy to Save Obamacare, But at What Cost, by Charles KrauthammerWashington Post: “Obamacare Version 1.0 is dead. The 1,000-page monstrosity that emerged in various editions from Congress was done in by widespread national revulsion not just at its expense and intrusiveness but also at the mendacity with which it is being sold. You don’t need a PhD to see that the promise to expand coverage and reduce costs is a crude deception, or that cutting $500 billion from Medicare without affecting care is a fiction.”

Fixing Health Care Is Good for Business, by Gary LockeWall Street Journal: “How many aspiring entrepreneurs are stuck in dead-end jobs because of health concerns?”President Obama’s Secretary of Commerce asks a very pertinent question here. However, as I have previously noted, the question of whether the health care system should be reformed is not particularly controversial; what is controversial is the manner in which health care reform ought to be structured and implemented.

Miscellaneous

How Facebook Ruins Friendships, by Elizabeth Bernstein
This essay from today’s Wall StreetJournal ought to be required reading for all Facebook users!

Religion

The Benefits of ReligionFreakonomics: “A new study by Angus Deaton uses an expansive dataset to analyze the determinants and benefits of religiosity around the world.”